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Title What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought / Keith E. Stanovich.
Author Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-
Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  153.9 STA    Check Shelves
Description xv, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-301) and index.
Contents Inside George W. Bush's mind : hints at what IQ tests miss -- Dysrationalia : separating rationality and intelligence -- The reflective mind, the algorithmic mind, and the autonomous mind -- Cutting intelligence down to size -- Why intelligent people doing foolish things is no surprise -- The cognitive miser : ways to avoid thinking -- Framing and the cognitive miser -- Myside processing : heads I win, tails I win too! -- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindwaregaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.
Subject Intelligence tests.
Thought and thinking.
ISBN 030012385X : $30.00
9780300123852